Miners face rise in black lung as bosses reap profits

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023

Black lung, a devastating and often fatal disease caused by prolonged exposure to dust that scars lung tissue, has been on the rise among coal miners over the past two decades, as the bosses’ drive for profits comes at the…


Cuba trip to Angola, South Africa marks overthrow of apartheid

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Some 800 people listened to talk by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel at Freedom Park in Pretoria, South Africa, Aug. 23. Event celebrated Cuban Revolution’s role in overthrow of apartheid rule.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s recent trip to Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa highlighted the Cuban Revolution’s decades of solidarity with — and participation in — the fight against colonial rule and imperialist exploitation in Africa.  Carolina Cerqueira, president of…


Cuban youth leaders tour in Australia and New Zealand

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023
Aug. 6 meeting in Sydney, above, marked 70th anniversary of attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, the opening battle of Cuban Revolution. Inset, Marianniz Díaz and Iván Barreto, leaders of Union of Young Communists of Cuba.

SYDNEY — Marianniz Díaz Hernández and Iván Barreto López, leaders of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) in Cuba, visited Australia and New Zealand July 25 to Aug. 16 to speak about the challenges Cuban workers and farmers face and…


Bosses drive for profits, rail workers lose lives and limbs

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Rail workers picket North American Rail Shippers’ Kansas City conference, May 2022, during contract negotiations. Four rail workers have been killed on the job in the last seven weeks.

Since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and fires contaminated East Palestine, Ohio, working people everywhere have been paying attention to the job conditions and life disruptions the bosses’ drive for profits inflicts on rail workers and their families. During…


International youth meeting in Cuba says ‘No!’ to US embargo

Vol. 87/No. 30 - August 14, 2023
Some 80 delegates from 30 countries expressed solidarity with the Cuban people and their socialist revolution in Havana May 27. They joined a bicycle caravan along the Malecón seafront boulevard protesting Washington’s trade and financial embargo against Cuba

HAVANA — “Your presence here encourages us and reinforces that Cuba is not alone despite so many attempts to isolate us,” Aylín Álvarez García, first secretary of the National Committee of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba (UJC), told…


SWP campaigns on program to counter economic crisis

Vol. 87/No. 29 - August 7, 2023

What can working people do to defend ourselves from the bosses who continue to push the economic crisis of their system onto our backs? Strikes and other battles by thousands of union members are underway to win better wages and…


Why do liberals claim that US capitalism is on the upswing?

Vol. 87/No. 29 - August 7, 2023
While energy prices have gone down, most items working people depend on are still rising today.

If you go by what the liberal big-business media are saying, the economy is on the verge of a boom, with prices dropping and fears of a wrenching recession fading away. Among a plethora of articles pushing this view include:…


Veterans, retirees step up protests in Iran

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

Dozens of veterans and their families rallied outside the Martyrs and Veterans Foundation in Tehran July 8, above, chanting, “Yesterday’s soldiers, today’s hungry.” They were protesting government plans to slash their pensions and other benefits amid the deepening capitalist economic…


Atlanta forum: ‘Defend freedom of speech for everyone’

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

ATLANTA — “We need to recognize the common interests of those whose freedom of speech is under attack,” Dr. Aisha Fields, a leader of the African People’s Socialist Party from Huntsville, Alabama, told participants at a July 16 Militant Labor…